Unavoidable: The Grand Tour of Cuba

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FLIGHT TO HAVANA

• Flight to Havana
• Arrival in Havana at the end of the evening
• Home at the airport by our colleague, and direction to your hotel
• Dinner and night at the hotel in Havana

HAVANA/VINALES

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Road to the guided tour
• First stop: the beach of Pinardel Rio to put you in vacancy mode – walk to feet, go to the meeting of the meeting of the Cuban people
• Make a jump to the House of the rum, cruising in the path of the farms of sugar cane and rice, and you will see there without fault of the vultures fly over the sky
• The Valley of Vinalès, where are the best lands to black tobacco in the world, magnificent landscapes, covered by a luxuriant vegetation, passing by the mogotes (hills of limestone)
• Return by the “mural of the Prehistoria”, this great fresco retracing the evolution of humanity
• Typical lunch to Vinalès with the Sound of Afro-Cuban music
• Visit of the botanical garden of Saroa, more than a thousand species of plants. Do not miss the falls of Saroa where you can make of loons
• Continue your walk in the village if Vinalès, where you will meet the tobacoo growers who will be pleased to introduce you to their way of life
• Return to Havana at the end of the afternoon
• Dinner in a typically Cuban restaurant with folk dance
• Night at the hotel Havana

HAVANA

• Breakfast at the hotel…
• Visit of the Cuban capital (the old city): Havana
• We will take the direction of the Revolution Square where the sculpture of the Che is highlighted, the tower José Marti you will enjoy the magnificent views of the city
• The oldest fortress “the Castillo de la Real Fuerza”, the place of weapons, the place of the cathedral
• Treat Your Taste Buds: have a typically Cuban lunch in the Old City
• Walk in the streets to the rhythm of the Cuban music, shopping to Miramar or the Chinatown distric
• You can stop at the Maleçon to admire a wonderful sunset
• Take a drink and dinner in a typically Cuban coffee (Taberna, Havana, coffee or Casa de la Musica), and dance until the small hours of the morning
• Night at the hotel in Havana

DAY 4

HAVANA – ZAPATA – CIENFUEGOS

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Direction the Zapata: visit in boats of the reserve of Zapata
• Lunch in Zapata
• Make a jump to the crocodile farm
• Direction the Bay of Pigs
• Follow the coast up to Cienfuegos
• Dinner and night at your hotel in Cienfuegos

DAY 5

CIENFUEGOS – TRINIDAD

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Visit of Cienfuegos: you can see the pink flamingos in boat to the Guanaroca lagoon or made of diving in Rancho Luna Beach
• Make a jump at the Teatro Terry to the Italian architecture
• We’ll take the direction of Trinidad classified as world heritage by the UNESCO (enjoy the breathtaking views of the sea and the countryside)
• Musical entertainment at the Tavern Canchancharra and lunch in the heart of the Old Town in the restaurant El Jigue, which will serve you his specialities of yellow rice cooked in the beer and served in plates of terracotta
• Do  not miss the market of Trinidad
• Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Trinidad

DAY 6

TRINIDAD – SIERRA ESCAMBRAY

• You will start from Trinidad in the direction of the Sierra Escambray
• Promenade in military trucks through the mountain paths, where you will discover a superb panorama of the coast, the city of Trinidad and the mountain
• Stop and walk in the natural park
• Lunch in the mountain, then bathing in the cascades and continuation of you ballad
• Return to Trinidad ad the en of the afternoon
• Dinner and overnight at your hotel

DAY 7

TRINIDAD – IZNAGA – SANCTI SPIRITUS – CAMAGUEY

• You will depart from Trinidad to board a train to cross the valley of Los Ingenios, magnificent landscape on the Campaign tropical, and you will arrive as well to Iznaga
• Visit of the Virgin of the charity of copper, patroness of Cuba, top plage of pilgrimage
• Dinner and overnight at your hotel Versaillès

DAY 8

SANTIAGO DE CUBA

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Guided tour of the old center of Santiago, with Place Céspedes set its colonial museum which shows the evolution of the Cuban furniture throughout the centuries. This museum is housed in the Colonial House. The oldest where dwelt Diefo Velasquez, first conqueror of the island
• Also visit the street Heredia and the place of the Revolution
• Cocktail on the terrace of the Hotel Casa Granded where you will have a beautiful view on the city, before crossing by boat on the islet Granma
• Lunch on the islet and then in the afternoon
• Of the Fortress El Morro, and the Moncada Barracks
• The Cemetery of personalities Santa Efigena
• Dinner and overnight at your hotel Versaillès

(Possibility of evenings, Tropicana of Santiago: in supplement)

SANTIAGO – BARACOA

• Departure in the direction of Baracoa along the coast and then passing by the winding road which leads you through the Sierra Maestra and its magnificent panoramas. You can stop at Mirador in order to contemplate a panoramic landscape on the Sierra. Very different of the Sierra Escambray, you will be in a desert of stones, shrubs and cacti
• Exotic lunch at the edge of Rio Toa, then arrival in Baracoa

BARACOA

• Visit to Baracoa, one the oldest cities in Cuba where the Frenc influence still premium. This port at the end of the world will enchant you and the discover of the plantations around the city will charm you by its lushness, the richness and variety of tropical colors
• Visit of the charming and typical small colorful city of Baracoa, the oldest American colonial city. It was the first city founded by the Spanish in Cuba and the first capital of the island from 1511 to 1515; it has a very particular atmosphere marked by fou centuries of isolation. It is a small town at the end of the world installed facing in Puerto Rico and Saint Dominguez. We no longer have any to makes the impression to be in Cuba
• Typical lunch of fish on the malecon. Afternoon discovery of the crafts and the promenade
• Dinner and overnight at the Hotel El Castillo or Porto Santo

BARACOA – GUANTANAMO – CAMAGUEY

• We will therefore resume the route of the sierra and join Guantanamo for lunch
• Then continuating for Camaguey
• City tour of Camaguey for a walk. Camaguey evokes a small European city of the 18th century, where its small winding streets and its public spaces recall the warm atmosphere of those of villages Italians or Spanish
• Dinner and overnight at the Hotel Colon o Gran Hotel

CAMAGUEY – SANTA CLARA

• You will join Santa Clara where you will arrive for a lunch after crossing a large rural region. Judgment in a farm and tasting of fruits
• Then visit the Memorial and the Museum of the Che on the square of the Revolution (if open)
• Visit to the monument of the armoured train, which is a strong symbol of the victory of the revolutionaries on the Army of the Batista
• Dinner and night in Santa Clara

SANTA CLARA – HAVANA

• Breakfast
• Departure for Havana
• Lunch at the restaurant El Ajibe, typical Cuban meal

HAVANA – RETURN FLIGHT

• Flight back to Paris
• Breakfast aboard
• Arrival in the morning in Paris